President’s Report & Forum Update

The AGM should serve as a reminder to all of our existence: to exchange ideas, to learn and inspire, and to promote better leadership for a changing world. Affirming IWFSA locally and globally The IWFSA work this year built on the sterling foundation established here in South Africa and globally (working with the Washington DC office). As the current Board (appointed in 2011) we prioritized governance and fundraising to maximize efforts and ensure sound institutionalization towards sustainability. To this end we re-established the head office in Hyde Park and employed…

Batandwa has a BCom Honours Degree from th Univeristy of Kwazulu-Natal in 2004. Before qualifying as a CA, she attempted actuarial science at UCT in 1999 after which she worked at Jacques Malan & Associates as an Actuarial Assistant in 2001 for a year and at the Frater Asset Management as Fund Co-ordinator in 2003. Batandwa is very passionate about education and ensuring that children get the education they deserve. As she comes from a rural town with not many opportunities, she believes that she has great opportunities in life through education. With that belief, she has adopted a school in Mzimkhulu called Bambanani Primary School, where she assists the children and the school to ensure that the children get a good education.

Two years ago, she assisted the school to have annual awards and a recognition event, which she has attended for the past two years and sponsors the event. She is now assisting the school with their project for a media centre, which will have computers and a library. She also encourages friends and family to adopt a school. She is also an external marker at UNISA for Honours Accounting, as she is passionate about education and participate in projects to uplift standards in primary and high schools around the previously disadvantaged areas. She is married with three children and enjoys spending time with her family, reading and travelling.

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Sue has primary accountability for managing the risk and control enviroment across Operations and Technology. This entails ensuring that the 3 lines of defence are fit for purpose and the governance is in place. It also includes oversight of the delivery of the African Road to Satisfactory, essential for improving control enviroment and reducing residual risk. She is a member of the African COO ExCo and Africa Risk ExCo. Prior to this role Sue was responsible for all payment operations across Africa, sanctions payment screening and the change management portfolio. As part of this role Sue represents Barclays Africa at the Group Governance Boards for Payments Process and Transactional Operations Key Risk and application owner for the critical payments infratsructure. She is part of the CIBW Extended Leadership Team.

Sue was part of the creation of the Group Centre Women's Network during her time in London and was sponsored in 2011 as the Barclays representative on the International Women's Forum Leadership Foundation, the programme entitled 'Women Leading Global Change'. She is active in the developing of female talent across Africa and leads learning and development interventions. Sue has had a wide variety of roles across the Barclays Group. These roles have included managing large scale operational teams, creating the strategy for Third Party Suppliers and held the role of Chief Operating Officer for Barclaycard Technology. She specialises in strategy planning, process re-engineering, portfolio management, relationship management, operational management and organisational design.

She lives in Johannesburg is married to Jon and has 3 children (Lucie, Harriet and Mathilda, 5 horses and 3 dogs.

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Thandi is a Founder, Director and Shareholder of Peotona Group Holdings, an investment company, together with Cheryl Carolus, Wendy Lucas-Bull and Dolly Mokgatle. Peotona's vision is to build a truly South African company that leaves sustainable footprints in communities, contributing to the development of women in business and the development of critical skills in the economy. Thandi's legal and business career of over 30 years spans the Legal Resources Centre, National Director of both the Independent Mediation Service of SA (IMSSA) and the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) and senior partner at the then commercial law firm, Routledge Modise.

She is involved in various community initiatives including chairing the Legal Resources Trust, the Shanduka Trust, De Beers Fund, Ceramic Foundation and the Fort Hare University Council. She is a trustee of the Zenex Foundation, Bertha Gxowa Foundation and as n Alumni of Inanda Seminary, a Trustee of the Inanda Seminary Education Trust. She chairs the Board of BP Southern Africa and is a Non-Executive Director on the Boards if Toyota SA, Toyota Financial Services (South Africa) Ltd, Reunert Ltd, Ceramic Industries Ltd and the IDC. She was previously a Non-Executive Director of the South African Reserve Bank.

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Zukie is the Chief Executive Officer for Thebe Capital, which houses strategic investments in companies like Shell SA, Altech Netstar, Vodacom, Combined Motor Holdings, and Safripol. She has diverse professional experience in areas such as finance, corporate governance, strategy, restructuring, investment management, business development, sales and distribution. Prior to joining Thebe, Zukie held various senior positions such as Barclays Africa Group Holding inlcuding CFO for Wealth Management and COO for Africa Finance. Before this, she was the head of Franchise & Umbono Distribution at Old Mutual Retail Mass, looking after alternative distribution channels. She was also a Strategic Investment Manager at Royal Bafokeng Holdings and held various roles at South African Breweries.

Zukie is a chartered accountant (SA) and a Chartered Managemetn Accountant (UK), who was ranked top student in South Africa on completion. She holds a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the University of Witwatersrand and an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science. She is currently completing an executive program with Harvard and Insead. She has served on public and private sector boards, as well as non-profit organisations and professional bodies such as ABSIP, ACWA and SAICA.

She is also a founding member of the African Leadership Network (ALN), an invitation only network of dynamic African leaders whose aim is to power Africa's prosperity as well as Graca Machel's New Faces New Voices Network (NVNF) which aims to spur on change in business and finance by harnessing the potential of women in Africa.

In her career she has won a number of business awards in recognition of her achievements. She won the Top Emerging Talent Award at the 2009 ABSIP Financial Services Awards and was featured in the Top 40 women under 40 by Destiny Magazine in November 2010. She was also named as one of the 2011 Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans and won the Corporate Category Award in the Business Woman Association 2011 Regional Achiever Awards. Recently she was awarded the prestigious Fortune Most Powerful Women Global Mentoring Exchange Program in New York and the Vital Voices Global Ambassadors Program and is part of their Global Leadership Network. Recently she has been awarded the prestigious International Women's Forum Leadership Fellowship with Harvard & Insead

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Judy Weber Kern is the Founder and Director of Winning Business Systems (WBS) training and consulting firm. She has more than 20 years' experience in desigining enterprise development and basic business skills training programmes. During the past eight years she has focussed on evaluating projects and project management. She advises a wide range of multinational companies, organisations including national and international NGOs, and government agencies. She advocates social entrepreneurships, self-empowerment and poverty eradication. For this reason, she has designed and implemented the Rural Wealth Creation Project (RWCP). A training and capacity building programme that was successfully implemented in Kwazulu Natal with more than 4000 women participating over the past three years.

Judy is a collaborative and customer focussed individual, who is committed to proving high levels of service to a diverse range of stakeholders. She has designed and implemented many successful development projects such as a recycling gift packaging enterprise development project. The knowledge gained throughout her years at the coalface enables her to recognise potential projects challenges and helps her to direct organisations to spend their energy and resources on the "right'' projects.

Judy's long involvement in the development field has confirmed to her the value of enterprise development. She strives to create markets and opportunities for women to enable them to become financially independent. She has learnt from her students that only when women ascertain their sense of self, their talent for becoming self-sufficient can be unleashed and their dignity thereby restored.

Awards and Recognition

Gold Award in the National Productivity Institute competition in 1999, she was honoured as the ''most productive women in assisting other women to become more productive''.

Woman of the Year at The Mercedes-Benz/Business Partners ''Women in Business Award'' was bestowed upon her in the same year

In the Shoprite/Checkers SABC 3 Woman of the Year Competition, she was awarded Business Woman Regional Award Winner in 2000

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Ms Pumeza Bam

Pumeza holds a BSc (Human Physiology, Biochemistry) from the University of Durban-Westville, a Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic Marketing Management, a Programme in Management Development (PMD) Certificate from GIBS and has completed an Accelerated Directorship Programme (ADP) resulting in being certified a Director by the Institute of Directors SA.

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Ms Tina Eboka

IWFSA Director

Tina Eboka is a board-level Strategy Consultant with a 24-year career spanning the banking, science/technology research, retail and manufacturing industries in both the public and the private sectors. Tina is a recognised business turnaround specialist who excels at fueling change in South Africa and on the African continent.

In her most recent role, Tina served as Executive Director of Group Corporate Affairs with Standard Bank of South Africa, where she established and led group corporate affairs as a member of the Group Executive Committee.

Ms Janine Hills

IWFSA Director

Janine Hills is the CEO and Founder of Vuma Reputation Management, a company that specialises in reputation management, crisis communication and media liaison.

Janine’s extensive business knowledge, skill and intricate understanding of reputation management are the outcome of over 25 years of experience across various sectors of industry. She has been employed by Southern Sun, Sun International, Vodacom and Primovie (a division of Primedia) and has sat on the boards of Kaizer Chiefs, Ster-Kinekor Home Entertainment and Ster-Kinekor Licensing. Janine has also worked for FNB and was a founding member of ebucks.com, the eCommerce initiative. Janine also currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Brand South Africa.

Ms Peta Nonceba Mashinini

IWFSA Director

The major portion of my latest working life was in local government and stakeholders included councillors, management, staff, trade unions, local communities, general public, higher levels of government, suppliers etc. Effective and efficient service delivery required that relationships with all these stakeholders be maintained. Successful implementation of service delivery programmes and projects sometimes required the organization I worked for to call on the expertise of key players in the broader community to act as source of local knowledge and ensure everyone works towards the stated objectives. The broader community, private sector and higher levels of government were very useful sources of additional ideas and resources.

Ms Mpho Letlape

IWFSA Vice President

Executive Chairman of Lethushane (Pty) Ltd., a property development company I founded in 2012 operating in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, in the housing development market. It showcases social entrepreneurship in practice, driven by the desperate need for housing, chronic unemployment in South Africa and the devastation both these bring.

Previously Deputy Vice Chancellr at the University of Johannesburg; Managing Director, SASOL Inzalo Foundation; Director of Human Resources at IBM South Africa. Current Vice President of the South African Chapter of the International Women's Forum (IWFSA); Board Member, National Research Foundation (NRF), T-Systems South Africa (TSSA), the Standard Bank Tutuwa Community Foundation and Trustee of South African Women in Dialogue and of the TSSA Foundation which I chair.

Mpho holds a BSc from Fort Hare University and has attended the Cape Town, Wits, IMD and Harvard Business Schools.